Now I'm back in the US I can finally catch up on **Silicon Valley**.

Pretty much within minutes, I was agreeing with [twbennett](/twbennett) that it's "Entourage set in Silicon Valley".

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I already like the way they've gone for a multi-faceted pastiche where any given person doesn't map directly to a single well-known figure but rather you can see them take a particular characteristic of a real person and put it on someone in the show.

So the minor characters are amalgams. I can only imagine I'm missing *some* of the references given how subtle some of the ones I *do* get are.

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Some of the stuff is obviously exaggerated, but you expect that in a pastiche.

The only thing I was disappointed by in the first episode was the TED talk. Firstly, it should have been a TEDx talk (minor point, I know) but it also failed to capture the tone that almost all TED or TEDx talks have.

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Such a great characterization where Erlich references "Steve" and Richard asks him "Jobs" or "Wozniak". 

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The Vibram FiveFingers were a great touch.

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"We'll call you when we want pleated khakis"

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The "guys? what guys?" scene in Episode 2 is frighteningly close to an experience I had when the first round of a previous company was being closed. Unfortunately, I was one of the "guys" and the investor was questioning who the hell I was :-) 

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Looking up "Business Plan" on Wikipedia. LOL

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Jared is definitely the character that reminds me most of people I know in the industry. Pitch perfect performance by Zach Woods.

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Shades of "Office Space" when Jared asks Gilfoyle "what do you do?".

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I still fondly remember depositing Eldarion's first investor checks. Fortunately Eldarion, Inc. already had an account :-)

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Read an interesting comment on Twitter that it feels more like 2008 with its focus on Palo Alto rather than San Francisco.

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Episode 4 felt the weakest so far for me.